News via TorrentFreak / June 19, 2013 7:28 pm
The KAT.ph domain name is back in the hands of the KickassTorrents team after a temporary injunction ran its course. Meanwhile, the legal action initiated by the music industry continues and it’s doubtful whether the second largest torrent site on the Internet will return to its old domain. The dotPH registry, who were also named in the complaint, informs TorrentFreak that going after domains is an ineffective strategy, as the events of the past week have shown.
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News via TorrentFreak / June 19, 2013 1:27 pm
- Ernesto
- June 19, 2013
- MegaUpload
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Megaupload’s former hosting provider Leaseweb has deleted all Megaupload user data from 690 servers without warning. Petabytes of data and backups, mostly from European users, are now lost forever. Kim Dotcom is outraged by the scandal and says this is what the U.S. Government was hoping would happen all along. “I’m furious about this betrayal, and extremely sad,” Dotcom tells TorrentFreak.
Ever since the raids in January last year, the fate of Megaupload users’ personal files has remained uncertain.
It’s been a frustrating situation for …
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News via TorrentFreak / June 19, 2013 7:27 am
- Andy
- June 19, 2013
- Norway
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A brand new law designed to make it easier to chase down file-sharers and have sites blocked at the ISP level is set to be exploited to the full when it comes into effect in just a few days time. Rightsholders including IFPI and representatives from the music and publishing industries will team up to create a Norwegian anti-piracy group modeled on the infamous Antipiratbyran. Web blocking of all the major torrent sites, including The Pirate Bay, is high on the …
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News via TorrentFreak / June 18, 2013 1:26 pm
- Andy
- June 18, 2013
- Vkontakte
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As Russia braces itself for the introduction of a tough new anti-piracy law, the major labels have begun blitzing Russia’s Facebook equivalent with copyright takedowns. The music of popular artists is currently being removed en masse by the huge social networking site causing outrage among its users who are now attempting to ‘encrypt’ their music uploads. While that’s unlikely to stop deletions, the labels appear to be in the mood to exchange their stick for a carrot.
Russia’s main social networking site vKontakte …
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News via TorrentFreak / June 18, 2013 7:26 am
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News via TorrentFreak / June 18, 2013 1:23 am
- Andy
- June 17, 2013
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Tough new anti-piracy legislation that allows for sites to be quickly blocked by ISPs following allegations of copyright infringement has been passed by Russia’s State Duma. Opposition to the bill has been growing, not only from regular Internet users but tech giants including Google, who are alarmed that domains could be censored without the intervention of the courts.
Russia has long struggled with its reputation as being soft on piracy.
Unauthorized websites offering all types of media are perceived as operating …
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News via TorrentFreak / June 17, 2013 1:20 pm
- Ernesto
- June 17, 2013
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Together with four other internet providers in the United States, Time Warner Cable is sending copyright alerts to customers who use BitTorrent to pirate movies, TV-shows and music. The goal of the “six strikes” program is to inform subscribers that their connection are being used to infringe copyrights while pointing them towards legal alternatives. However, Time Warner Cable is going one step further by warning users about the dangers of P2P software including identity theft, spyware, viruses and unsolicited access to …
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News via TorrentFreak / June 16, 2013 7:16 pm
- Ernesto
- June 16, 2013
- books,
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A new form of DRM developed in Germany alters words, punctuation and other text elements so that every consumer receives a unique version of an eBook. By examining these “text watermarks”, copies that end up on the Internet can be traced back to the people who bought and allegedly pirated them. The project is a collaboration between researchers, the book industry and the Government and aims to be a consumer-friendly form of DRM.
With e-readers becoming more popular year after year, book …
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News via TorrentFreak / June 16, 2013 7:16 pm
This week, the French authority Hadopi issued its first order of disconnecting the net for a person who shared culture and knowledge. Hadopi’s behavior is completely illegal. In 2009, the European Parliament made such disconnections unquestionably and explicitly illegal.
In 2009, the ugly French authority Hadopi – with the mission of cutting people off from the internet for the good deed of sharing culture and knowledge – reared its head.
This was in the middle of …
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News via TorrentFreak / June 16, 2013 1:15 pm
RSS feeds are a great tool for keeping up to date with the latest information across the web, whether that be plain news updates or other fresh content. Now a new website allows users to transform any RSS feed into a torrent-enabled RSS feed which can be imported into a torrent client for automated downloads of a limitless array of content.
RSS, which stands for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication, is a wonderful tool that allows publishers to automatically syndicate their content.
Here …
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